ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,070, issued on June 24, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Heat exchanger" was invented by Masashi Nakamura (Tokyo), Ryohei Kawabata (Tokyo), Naoki Chiku (Tokyo) and Masaki Okada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat exchanger is provided with a header that has a body section formed in a cylindrical shape and a divider that divides an internal space in the body section. In a state in which the body section and the divider are combined with each other, plate distal end portions of a pair of side plate portions of the divider do not protrude from a pair of respective insertion portions of the body section toward...